hcloud-setup

hcloud-setup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from danjdewhurst/hcloud-skills. It costs 42 tokens per session (2,372 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

Instructions for installing and configuring hcloud, the command-line tool for Hetzner Cloud. Hetzner Cloud is a service for running servers and other cloud resources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install hcloud, choose which Hetzner Cloud account or context it uses, configure defaults, enable shell completion, and control output such as JSON or YAML.
Why use it?
It collects setup details for installation, API tokens, contexts, defaults, shell completion, and command output formats.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the hcloud plugin — 7 skills, 3 commands, 1 hook shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/danjdewhurst/hcloud-skills/hcloud-setup
Any agent
npx skills add danjdewhurst/hcloud-skills --skill hcloud-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danjdewhurst/hcloud-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install hcloud, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 3 commands, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,372 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00042 $0.02372
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.01186
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00474
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00237

Measured 4d ago against content hash 73c3fafce3e8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

hcloud-setup scanned grade B with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo tar -C /usr/local/bin --no-same-owner -xzf hcloud-linux-amd64.tar.gz hcloud

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -sSLO https://github.com/hetznercloud/cli/releases/latest/download/hcloud-linux-amd64.tar.gz
skills/hcloud-setup/SKILL.md · 393 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 393 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

hcloud CLI Setup and Configuration

Installation

Manual (GitHub Releases)

Download pre-built binaries from GitHub releases. Extract and move the binary to a directory in your PATH.

Example for 64-bit Linux:

curl -sSLO https://github.com/hetznercloud/cli/releases/latest/download/hcloud-linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo tar -C /usr/local/bin --no-same-owner -xzf hcloud-linux-amd64.tar.gz hcloud
rm hcloud-linux-amd64.tar.gz

Go

go install github.com/hetznercloud/cli/cmd/hcloud@latest

Note: Binaries built with Go will not have the correct version embedded.

Homebrew (Linux / macOS)

brew install hcloud

Windows

WinGet:

winget install HetznerCloud.CLI

Scoop:

scoop install hcloud

Note: The WinGet and Scoop package entries are not maintained by Hetzner.

Docker

docker run --rm -e HCLOUD_TOKEN="<token>" hetznercloud/cli:latest <command>

To persist configuration, mount the config file:

docker run --rm -v ~/.config/hcloud/cli.toml:/config.toml hetznercloud/cli:latest <command>

Interactive shell:

docker run -it --rm --entrypoint /bin/sh hetznercloud/cli:latest

Debian-based distributions (using apt) provide outdated versions of the hcloud CLI. Use one of the other installation methods instead.

Shell Completion

Bash

Load into current shell:

source <(hcloud completion bash)

Make permanent by adding the line above to ~/.bashrc.

Zsh

Generate the completion file:

mkdir -p ~/.config/hcloud/completion/zsh
hcloud completion zsh > ~/.config/hcloud/completion/zsh/_hcloud

Add to ~/.zshrc (the fpath line must come before compinit):

fpath+=(~/.config/hcloud/completion/zsh)
# ... anything else that needs to be done before compinit
autoload -Uz compinit; compinit

Restart the shell for changes to take effect.

Fish

Permanent installation:

hcloud completion fish > ~/.config/fish/completions/hcloud.fish

Read the full file on GitHub · 393 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 393 lines · 42 tokens per session scan B 73c3fafce3e8

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hcloud-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository danjdewhurst/hcloud-skills (3 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 2,372 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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